Flirtation: A NovelBaudry's European Library, 1836 - 402 páginas |
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... Lady Emily Lorimer ; my niece , Lady Frances Lorimer ; my friend and kinswoman , Miss Marian Macalpine - I beg her pardon for having forgotten to name her before ; her friend , Miss Paterson- both of them near relations of my mother's ...
... Lady Emily Lorimer ; my niece , Lady Frances Lorimer ; my friend and kinswoman , Miss Marian Macalpine - I beg her pardon for having forgotten to name her before ; her friend , Miss Paterson- both of them near relations of my mother's ...
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... Miss Macalpine , Sir R. Townley , the General and Lady Emily , sat down to whist . Mr. Aldget engaged Colonel Pen- nington at backgammon ; Mr. Skinner was busily employed in examining a plan of the estate , with some proposed ...
... Miss Macalpine , Sir R. Townley , the General and Lady Emily , sat down to whist . Mr. Aldget engaged Colonel Pen- nington at backgammon ; Mr. Skinner was busily employed in examining a plan of the estate , with some proposed ...
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... Lady Emily ! I wish you would mind what you are about ! " cried Miss Macalpine ; why you have trumped my queen , and lost the odd trick , and they are at nine ; and that's a double and single , and the rubber , and there's eighteen ...
... Lady Emily ! I wish you would mind what you are about ! " cried Miss Macalpine ; why you have trumped my queen , and lost the odd trick , and they are at nine ; and that's a double and single , and the rubber , and there's eighteen ...
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A Novel Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury. the regret of Miss Macalpine , music banished cards : not that she disliked music , only she like cards better . " Is your Lordship fond of our Scottish airs ? " said Miss Macal- pine , adressing ...
A Novel Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury. the regret of Miss Macalpine , music banished cards : not that she disliked music , only she like cards better . " Is your Lordship fond of our Scottish airs ? " said Miss Macal- pine , adressing ...
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... Lady Emily afterwards proved that , though she sung Scotch airs to please Miss Macalpine , and Handel to please the General , she was not insensible to the power of Italian music . On the contrary , she sang Caraffa's exquisite airs ...
... Lady Emily afterwards proved that , though she sung Scotch airs to please Miss Macalpine , and Handel to please the General , she was not insensible to the power of Italian music . On the contrary , she sang Caraffa's exquisite airs ...
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Abbotsbury Aldget Alpinia Altamont Ambrose Ambrose Philips amusement beauty believe Ben Hardy better called Carlton carriage Castle charming circumstances Colonel Pennington Corrie countenance cried dear Lord dear uncle dearest uncle delight Delvin Emily's endeavoured eyes favour feelings felt Fitzhammond Flirtation frae General's give Hall hand happy hear heard heart honour hope interest knew Lady Bellamont Lady Emily Lady Frances Lady Frances's Lady Glassington Ladyship lassie laugh leave Lepel live look Lord Bellamont Lord Mow Lushee manner Marian matter mind Miss Macalpine Montgomery Montgomery Hall morning Mowbray's neral never Neville niece night pain party passed perhaps person pleasure poor pray recollection rejoined replied Lord Mowbray Rosalinda Rose scene seemed servants sister smile Sorrento speak sure sweet talk taste tell there's thing thought turned uncle's voice walk wish woman words young
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Página 289 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence ; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart ; Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange ; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.
Página 275 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Página 275 - These simple blessings of the lowly train; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art; Spontaneous joys, where Nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their firstborn sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.
Página 260 - That charm shall grow, while what fatigues the Ring, Flaunts and goes down, an unregarded thing...
Página 26 - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Página 354 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased ; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
Página 369 - Mais elle était du monde où les plus belles choses Ont le pire destin ; Et rose elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses, L'espace d'un matin.
Página 249 - But pluck'd and strain'd through ruder hands, Her sweets no longer with her dwells: But scent and beauty both are gone, And leaves fall from her, one by one. Such fate ere long will thee betide When thou hast handled been awhile, With sere flowers to be thrown aside; And I shall sigh, while some will smile, To see thy love to every one Hath brought thee to be loved by none.
Página 43 - Hark, hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies ; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes : With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise : Arise, arise.
Página 42 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.